The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.
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Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.
That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.
As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want.